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Heterozygote advantage: the effect of artificial selection in livestock and pets.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Hedrick Philip W

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There are a number of mutants in livestock and pets that have a heterozygote advantage because of artificial selection for these mutants in heterozygotes and strong detrimental effects from natural selection in homozygotes. In livestock, these mutants include ones that influence milk yield in dairy cattle, fecundity in sheep, litter size in pigs, muscling in beef cattle, color in horses, lean meat content in...

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PMID: 25524994
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esu070

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